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...their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or - like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week - in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always recoiled from accepting a slow, endless drip of casualties from contests whose stated purpose we have long forgotten. Soon we may have to get used...
Images and songs are allowed to present themselves, appearing with minimal explanation and subtitles. The frames practically drip with color, as though every object within them bursts with the same energy and vitality reflected by the nation as a whole...
...laundry room is ideal, homeowners are finding, for consolidating activities previously scattered throughout the house. In the Vero Beach, Fla., house that Barbara and Chester Irons are building, the laundry room will feature professional-grade fixtures, including two sinks, a drip-dry area, a rotary pressing machine, a pressure ironing board and a sewing table--not to mention stations for crafts, gift wrapping and potting plants. "I'm not trying to create a huge, superfluous room," says Barbara Irons. "When you look at historic houses, they had all sorts of rooms for maintaining the house--the mudroom, the butler...
...scientists at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the first electronic, digital computer. A year later, on Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. There were cultural and social developments too. An exhibit of Jackson Pollock's first drip paintings opened on Jan. 5, 1948. Early signs of a civil rights awakening came as Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier on April...
...overheard - a tune picked out clumsily on a piano; her own voice singing mournfully. David Cunningham's A Position Between Two Curves picks up ambient sound and builds it up through feedback until it reaches a certain pitch of loudness. Like Ceal Floyer's Bucket, which "catches" a recorded drip, this could be encounter by irritation. The show will continue to serve up a feast of fresh ideas through...